But senior government researcher Aya Abe says Japan has the fourth-highest rate of poverty among developed countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

If the Fed wants to push the Federal Funds Rate up and down it goes and buys short-term government bonds.

如果联邦希望推动,联邦资金利率上升下降,它将会去买短期的政府债券。

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The CDC can buy this from the manufacturer for a lower price, and when you hear about government organizations distributing vaccines to different parts of the world, they're buying at a reduced rate but it's still not inexpensive.

疾控中心可以从工厂拿到较低价格的疫苗,当你听到,政府组织向世界各地,分发派送疫苗时,他们确实给的是折扣价,但却并不那么廉价

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Haskins cites the nation's rising jobless rate as proof that government can't fix everything.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

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With the British soldier death rate escalating in Helmand province, the public is losing faith in the government and its justification for being in Afghanistan 7.5 years after first being deployed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13